From: Emmanuel Levy (emmanuel.levy_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 14:30:51 CDT

Dear John,

Sorry I didn't see your answer before posting mine.

Thanks a lot - I'll try that.

Best wishes,

Emmanuel

On 10/03/2008, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Yes, VMD already does this, but the method it uses is to scale
> such that the bounding box for the top molecule fits the displayed
> volume in eye coordinates. This won't give you quite the same result
> as something designed to scale so the drawn geometry just touches
> the edges of the window, but it serves a similar purpose. A script can do
> this using the "display resetview" command after setting the appropriate
> "top" molecule.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:50:50PM -0400, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Emmanuel Levy wrote:
> >
> > EL> Hello,
> > EL>
> > EL> I was wondering if there is simple function that I could call to zoom
> > EL> on a protein so that it automatically fits the display window.
> >
> > i was under the impression that VMD already does this...
> >
> > if you want to "zoom in" a little closer by default, you could
> > play with the "display height" command or use the 'scale' command
> > after loading a molecule.
> >
> > cheers,
> > axel.
> >
> > EL> So it is a sort of "crop" except that I would like to keep the window
> > EL> size constant.
> >
> >
> >
> > EL>
> > EL> Many thanks for any hint you could give me!
> > EL>
> > EL> Best wishes,
> > EL>
> > EL> Emmanuel
> > EL>
> >
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